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by craigyk 11y ago
Looking good. Soon I'll just be waiting for the announcement that they have sped things up 10X, and I might finally be able to let go of my Python ennui.
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by craigyk 11y ago
Or insulting the type of people who would let personal insults dictate their decisions affecting millions.
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by craigyk 11y ago
Germany was _forgiven_ over 50% of it's post war debts. By my rough calculation, 35B+ in today's dollars.
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by craigyk 11y ago
No doubt you should be annoyed, but you should direct most of that ire at the troika than at Greece. The money that went to "bailout" Greece really made its way to EU lenders by way of Greece. A real bailout would have consisted
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by craigyk 11y ago
Truth. German and Greek taxpayers are paying back rich creditors that made dumb loans. The Greek people get especially screwed. The current shot-callers have little interest in long-term political stability and the well-being of citizens
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by craigyk 11y ago
Greece would kill for those kinds of terms I think. the people in charge of policy back then cared about long-term political and economic stability, the people in charge today mostly care about getting saved from their stupid investments.
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by craigyk 11y ago
I don't think you need to do much more than add more tax brackets and increase them. The top bracket really should be approaching like 90% for income in excess of $1M a year... IE. the tax brackets and rates should generate an income
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by craigyk 11y ago
Germany (and lots of Europe) was rebuilt at great expense and with considerable willingness to forgive debts or reparations, because, quite rightly, the world realized impsosing draconian penalties on Germany after wwi was a major factor le
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by craigyk 11y ago
for most positions training a "green" hire is probably like 20% new, transferrable skills (PLs, frameworks, etc.), and 80% highly specific, and less broadly applicable domain knowledge. That includes things things like figuring o
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by craigyk 11y ago
When I interviewed with them, it seemed the interviewers had quite a large effect on how each session went. I had four great interviews, and two that were unpleasant. This had very little to do with how challenging the questions were and
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by craigyk 11y ago
One of my interviewers at Google asked me to implement a balanced tree insert on the whiteboard in C. After doing so he immediately told me it wouldn't work. I searched futilely for a minute or two to find the problem before he conde
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by craigyk 11y ago
Sure...
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by craigyk 11y ago
My take is that it is photos uploading. I experienced the same issue and had to pause the photos upload when at home.
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by craigyk 11y ago
seriously, still makes me mad when I think back on first encountering this. especially since ffmpeg is superior in every way IMO.
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by craigyk 11y ago
I don't know how true this is, but my mom used to live on Lake Michigan when she was ~7 and used to tell me how gross the lakes were before the Clean Water Act, and how amazing the turn-around. If so, it's a nice example for the
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by craigyk 12y ago
The scenery and pictures don't do much to elicit a reaction from me. There are quite a few natural places as bleak and "hellish" as the landscape he describes, some that people actually appreciate for their austere "bea
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by craigyk 12y ago
not sure, but what jury is going to be sympathetic to someone getting paid a 500k salary (higher than her peers) and receiving such generous severance?
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by craigyk 12y ago
"Thanks for being christ-like and not christian" - Bill Maher
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by craigyk 12y ago
these kinds of problems may cause the array to fail, but won't necessarily lose data, right? If you have a ZFS pool and a faulty controller causes the pool to fail, ie. "losing" three disks in a raidz2 vdev, my guess is that
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by craigyk 12y ago
6 of 1, half a dozen of the other? I agree there are things about the new software that are not as good as the old. OTH, it's really hard to maintain feature-parity on launching a new rewrite. I think a lot of this stuff will eventu
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by craigyk 12y ago
Heh, the takeaway I've gotten from some of Stross's novels is that AI makes "capitalism" indistinguishable, at least from the point of human beings, from a centrally-planned managed economy. So there could be a future i
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by craigyk 12y ago
It always struck me that socialism is the economic system that in theory appears to be closest/compatible with democracy. Then again, I think what has actually become obvious is that mixed economies are what seem to work, to which I&#
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by craigyk 12y ago
I remember when I was applying to graduate schools I was waiting to go to my last (fourth) recruitment interview, but I was pretty sure I wanted to go to the third school I had visited. Well I wasn't back for more than a day from the
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by craigyk 12y ago
I don't think talent is BS, but there is certainly a lot of BS in evaluating it.
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by craigyk 12y ago
To be a bit contrarian though... there is a useful aspect associated with using labels, even in political/economic discussions, in a way that is similar to ascribing names to things called "design patterns" so that one can co
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by craigyk 12y ago
This is essentially a stand-in for workers "owning the means of production". Congrats, you are now a marxist (dirty commie according to some).
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by craigyk 12y ago
Yes, but automation is getting better. "Historically always been the case" is a deceptive panacea. It isn't inconceivable to imagine that it might start eating into knowledge-based work even more, continually shrinking the
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by craigyk 12y ago
I'm hoping the only concessions will be battery and maybe camera. A 4" iPhone 6s with an A9, 2gb of RAM and 32gb disk would be my next phone.
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Why have American weddings gotten so ridiculously expensive? Blame inequality(vox.com)
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by craigyk 12y ago
yup, hopefully removal of any top-level vdev and rebalancing data in a pool.

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